RE: When you run out of money

["Hywel Mallett" <hmallett@vstrading.co.uk>]

I'm sure Colin will respond with how much 44GB will cost (roughly), but
I can tell you that tarsnap costs virtually nothing to use - Don't tell
Colin, but I think it's under-priced!

I look after a couple of tarsnap accounts. One has been going for just
under a year, and has low use (We backup only a few GBs, but back it up
with a great amount of duplication each night). That use has yet to use
25 cents of usage. The other account backs up a few tens of GBs, has
been doing so for over a year, and has done a couple of disaster
recovery tests (which use a lot of transfer). That one has used just
over $2 in 14 months.

I've had a look at the source code, and there is a specific return code
for "out of credit". So though I haven't tried it (and won't get to try
it for ages at the current rate), I would expect that the backup would
fail, and you'd get an error explicitly telling you why. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Putnam [mailto:reader@newsguy.com] 
Sent: 30 June 2011 02:08
To: tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
Subject: When you run out of money

This is probably explained somewhere but I haven't run across it yet.

I've created an account, put some $ in there.

I have about 44 GB to archive on this go-around.  How much money will
that take?   But also, if now or in the future I attempt to store more
data than I have money to pay for... what happens?

Does the transfer just fail silently?  Or are there error messages
telling whats going on ..?



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